Foreigner - 4

Expanded & remastered edition of their 1981 release with 2 added bonus 'nearly unplugged' versions of 'Juke Box Hero' & 'Waiting For A Girl Like You'. Album Description

this album sucks

i have two reasons to give this review.
1) forgeiner sucks, outside of jukebox hero, cold as ice and hot blooded, they arent worth listening to
2)to the scrote who feels the need to talk about this album in about 90% of all the negative reviews for great albums ive read on amazon, this is partly out of spite. I hate you, stop posting reviews under mutliple names to bring the average number of stars down. May 20, 2008

Solid pop music from a rock band

Four was Foreigner's high water mark commercially. There were only four band members left, it was their fourth album and it was four (or five?) years since 1977, the year the first, self-titled album came out. It is a strong 80's styled pop album with masterful pop tracks like 'Waiting for a girl like you', the occasional straight-ahead rocker like 'Don't let our love go' and the material is generally spot on, catchy, slightly experimental at times, keeping it interesting.

Despite it's strength and popularity, I personally feel that the catchy, slick, synth rock pop sound featured here is typical of it's time, and a whole raft of bands from Air Suppy, Spandeau Ballet and Sueprtramp could have made this music. It's the stuff that other bands can't make that I like to hear from Foreigner.

Overall you get a pleasant listening experience that doesn't need 'getting used to' but grabs you instantly, but doesn't venture into the band's strongest terrirtory. February 26, 2008

The reviewer below should take a trip to hell

The below 1 star reviewer is a J.E.R.K. DON'T LISTEN TO THE JERKS WHO RATE OR SLAM THIS ALBUM ONLY 1 STAR. THIS DESERVES 4-5 STARS. I really think Waiting for a Girl Like You is a lovely lovely song and as I call that one of my favorite songs of all time. August 19, 2007

Lou Gramm is a worse singer than I am.

Foreigner was intended for one audience: those who couldn't accept punk and new wave for what they were (a change that needed to happen), but were sick of what the "old guard" (Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, etc.) were pumping out at the time. Speaking as a fan of both the punk/new wave groups and the old guard, I can safely say this album is a terrible, pompous piece of arena-rock crap packed to the gills with overblown AOR ballad melodramas "Waiting for a Girl Like You", "Girl on the Moon", and "Break It Up", or else toothless, shallow arena-rockers such as "Night Life", "Luanne", "Urgent", "I'm Gonna Win", "Woman in Black", and the major hit "Juke Box Hero". Every riff is secondhand, every lyric is unoriginal, the synthesizers are used unimaginatively and often to annoying effect - contrast with how they were used by Stevie Wonder or The Who - they're especially insulting on "Girl on the Moon", "Don't Let Go", and "Woman in Black". Creativity? Experimentation? Forget it. Uh-uh. Zilch. Zero. Nada. Any redeeming factors at all? No way. Why the hell does this band exist? That's a question for the ages. I mean, come on, what's the purpose of stale arena-rock totally void of personality?
Oh, for the record, Rohit R./Six Sixteen/Master of Puppets/Free Bird/Sultans of Swing/Ride the Lightning/Led Zeppelin are Legends/achilles last stand/Trampled Underfoot (they're all the same person, if you're one of the six people who didn't know that) is a sad case. You know who else is a sad case? Heavy Fuel/Jukebox Hero/Won't Get Fooled Again/The Valdosta Kid/Rock n Roll Will Never Die/whirligig/the heavy rocking guitar solo kid/Sweet Child o' Mine/Mr. Baseball/The Bug/The God That Failed/Baseballhero/Let It Be/Four Fourteen/telegraph road/Fade to Black/For Whom the Bell Tolls/The Kid Who Loves Waiting for a Girl Like You/Zeppelin is Crap/Waiting for a Girl Like You/Tommy Moon/Waiting/Brothers in Arms/Love Over Gold/the various five-star "Music fans" who praise Foreigner, Metallica, Dire Straits and Guns n' Roses while mocking the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin (They're all the same person too of course, and I think I touched on all of this person's various screennames). Just two trolls who need to take their petty music-related feuds elsewhere. If you ask me, Amazon should take action against both of them. August 3, 2007

GenerAlly..

there's a gleam in my eye when I'm listening to this.It made me feel safe as a child and the enchantress "Girl On the Moon" made me wonder about it:Who was she? Arianrhod? Juke Box Hero is of course the standard dreamer's song: Urgent is the catalyst that mAkes many want to play the saxOphone.Angie (Who's your childhood friend??)RoSkellEy was a good person. July 13, 2007

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